"""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", by Oscar Wilde, in 1994 (225 copies). In February of the same year, Palmer took part in a major examination of art created for Coleridge's Poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". ""The Mariner Imagined, Coleridge's Poem and the Artist, 1831-1994"", held at Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, London, also featured works by David Scott, Joseph Noel Paton, Gustave Dore, Willy Pogany, David Jones, Duncan Grant, Mervyn Peake and Patrick Procktor. The following November his work was shown in an ""Exhibition of Wood Engravings used as Book Illustrations"", at Oxford University Club, Halifax House, Oxford. His"
"number, C33, as a way of symbolically linking his fate to theirs, to read out aloud Wilde's poem ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"". Hirschfeld found the reading of ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"" to be """"markerschütternd"""" (shaken to the core of one's being, i.e. something that is emotionally devastating), going on to write that the poem reading was ""the most earth-shattering outcry that has ever been voiced by a downtrodden soul about its own torture and that of humanity"". By the end of the reading of ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", Hirshfeld felt ""quiet joy"" as he was convinced that,"
"The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son, who commands a troop of the Guides, asks if any of his men know where Kamal might be. One does, and tells him, and warns him of the dangers of entering Kamal's territory guarded by tribesmen concealed among the rocks"
"Charles de Gaulle (poet) Charles Jules-Joseph de Gaulle (January 31, 1837 – January 1, 1880) was a French writer who was a pioneer of Pan-Celticism and the bardic revival. He is also known as Charlez Vro-C'hall, the Breton language version of his name. He was the uncle of General de Gaulle. Born in Valenciennes, Nord, de Gaulle was struck by a progressive paralyzing illness from his early youth. He turned to scholarship and began a study the Celtic languages after reading ""Barzaz Breiz"" (Ballads of Brittany) at the age of sixteen. He learned Breton, Welsh and Gaelic, but never visited"
"Ballad of Reading Gaol"". Wooldridge, known as ""C.T.W"" in the poem, was a trooper serving with the Royal Horse Guards in Windsor who had killed his wife Laura with a cut-throat razor during a fit of jealous rage. Wilde recounts that the condemned man seemed resigned to his fate on the gallows, and Wooldridge even petitioned the Home Secretary requesting that he not be reprieved, despite a plea for clemency submitted by the jury at his trial and various petitions organised by the residents of Berkshire. He told the prison chaplain that he wanted to die in payment for his"
"Charles Thomas Wooldridge Charles Thomas Wooldridge (c.1866 – 7 July 1896) was a Trooper in the Royal Horse Guards who was executed in Reading Gaol for the murder of his wife and who, as 'C.T.W', was the dedicatee of Oscar Wilde's ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"". The son of Eleanor (born c.1827) and Charles Wooldridge (born c.1824), Wooldridge was born in East Garston and joined the Royal Horse Guards in 1886. He married Laura Ellen ""Nell"" Glendell (1873–1896) in 1894 when his regiment was posted to Windsor. However, as his commanding officer had not given permission for the wedding to"
"the 19th century was French Symbolism. This movement inevitably influenced Irish writers, not least Oscar Wilde (1845–1900). Although Wilde is best known for his plays, fiction, and ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", he also wrote poetry in a symbolist vein and was the first Irish writer to experiment with prose poetry. However, the overtly cosmopolitan Wilde was not to have much influence on the future course of Irish writing. W. B. Yeats was much more influential in the long run. Yeats, too, was influenced by his French contemporaries but consciously focused on an identifiably Irish content. As such, he was"
"from 1895 to 1897. While he was there, he wrote ""De Profundis"", which was published in 1905. After his release, he lived in exile in France and wrote ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", based on his experience of an execution carried out in Reading Gaol whilst he was imprisoned there. It was first published in 1898 under the pseudonym C.3.3, Wilde's erstwhile cell number. Other authors lived in and around Reading. Jane Austen attended Reading Ladies Boarding School, based in the Abbey Gateway, in 1784–86. Mary Russell Mitford lived in Reading for a number of years and then spent the"
"His discussion of the dismissal of Warder Martin for giving biscuits to an anaemic child prisoner, repeated the themes of the corruption and degeneration of punishment that he had earlier outlined in ""The Soul of Man under Socialism"". Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in the seaside village of Berneval-le-Grand in northern France, where he wrote ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", narrating the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who murdered his wife in a rage at her infidelity. It moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the"
"Alaol Syed Alaol (; 1607 – 1673) was a poet in Bengal during the medieval age. He was probably born in 1607 in Jalalpur village in Fatwabad Pargana of Faridpur District of Bangladesh. His father was a minister of Majlis Qutb, the ruler of Fatwabad (near Faridpur, Bangladesh). His most well known work is ""Padmavati"", which depicts the story of Padmavati, the Sinhala princess and the queen of Chittor. He is considered to be one of the most prolific medieval Bengali poets. Since most of his poems combine emotion with intellect, he is called the ""Pandit Kabi"" or 'Wise Poet'"
"Texts Talks Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is"
"Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred"
"Barrack-Room Ballads The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems ""Gunga Din"", ""Tommy"", ""Mandalay"", and ""Danny Deever"", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the ""Scots Observer"" in the first half of 1890, and collected in ""Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses"" in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in ""The Seven Seas"" under the same title."
"Gabriel's Wing Bal-e-Jibril (; or Gabriel's Wing; published in Urdu, 1935) was a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great South Asian poet-philosopher, and the national poet of Pakistan. Iqbal's first book of poetry in Urdu, ""Bang-i-Dara"" (1924), was followed by ""Bal-i-Jibril"" in 1935 and ""Zarb-i-Kalim"" in 1936. Bal-i-Jibril is the peak of Iqbal's Urdu poetry. It consists of ghazals, poems, quatrains, epigrams and displays the vision and intellect necessary to foster sincerity and firm belief in the heart of the ummah and turn its members into true believers. Some of the verses had been written when Iqbal visited"
"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins ""The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel ""The Hobbit"". The recording was featured on ""Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy,"" the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. It was also released as a single (Dot Records Cat. #45-17028) in July 1967, backed with a ""modern thought-image"" folk song called ""Cotton Candy"". When the single was originally released, Nimoy lip-synched to the recording during a guest appearance on the July"
"Gagan mein thaal Gagan mein thaal is an Aarti (prayer) in Sikh religion which was recited by first guru, Guru Nanak. This was recited by him in 1506 or 1508 at the revered Jagannath Temple, Puri during his journey (called ""udaasi"") to east India. This arti is sung (not performed with platter & lamps etc.) daily after recitation of Rehraas Sahib & Ardās at the Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar. Famous saint poet of India Rabindranath Tagore was once asked by Balraj Sahni, who used to teach at Santiniketan then, that the way he has written the National Anthem of India, why"
"a traditional driving rhythm. Such echoes are to be heard throughout the poem: there is a couplet that is repeated with slight variations several times: T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son,"
"In the Bazaars of Hyderabad ""In The Bazaars of Hyderabad"" is an early 20th-century English poem written by Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) (also known as ""The Nightingale of India""), an Indian independence activist and a poet from Hyderabad, India. The poem is written in five stanzas, was first published in the year 1912 from London in a form of book ""The Bird of Time"" with her other series of poems. The poem typifies the social and the cultural life of Hyderabad, it is not only meant for financial dealing for buying and selling, but it is also a meeting place for"
"partly after his life. Based upon the story, Satyajit Ray made his film: ""The Postmaster."" Tagore mentioned the following about Gagan: Gagan Harkara Gaganchandra Dam (; 1845–1910), mostly known as Gagan Harkara () was a Bengali Baul poet after the tune of whose famous song ""Ami Kothay Pabo Tare"" (কোথায় পাবো তারে) Rabindranath Tagore composed ""Amar Shonar Bangla"", the national anthem of Bangladesh. He resided at Kasba village in Kumarkhali Upazila in Kushtia. As he was a Postman at Shelaidaha Post office in Kumarkhali, people used to address him as ""Harkara""; in Bengali, ""Harkara"" stands for ""postman"". He was used"
"The Giaour The Giaour is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 by John Murray and printed by Thomas Davison was the first in the series of his Oriental romances. ""The Giaour"" proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially. Byron was inspired to write the poem during his Grand Tour during 1810 and 1811, which he undertook with his friend John Cam Hobhouse. While in Athens, he became aware of the Turkish custom of throwing a woman found guilty of adultery into the sea wrapped in a sack. ""Giaour"" (Turkish: ""Gâvur"")"
"bought from Sudama Kuti, Bansiwat, Vrindavan,U.P or from Geeta Press, Gorakhpur. Bhaktamal Bhaktamal is a poem in the Braja language that gives short biographies of more than two-hundred Bhaktas. It was written by Guru Nabha Dass ji (Devanāgarī: , IAST: Bhaktamāla) (c. 1585), and was composed by Nabhadas (a saint belonging to the tradition of Ramananda). Though considered a hagiography by some, the work recounts no miraculous events, and is widely believed to be an unbiased account of Bhaktas across all sectarian paths. The Bhaktamal gives the earliest reliable account of many Bhakta, and hence is considered an important source"
"was widely translated. The word ""gitanjali"" is composed from ""geet"", song, and ""anjali"", offering, and thus means – ""An offering of songs""; but the word for offering, ""anjali"", has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as ""prayer offering of song"". William Butler Yeats wrote the introduction to the first edition of ""Gitanjali"". Gitanjali Gitanjali (, ) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the book. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. The original Bengali collection of 156/157 poems"
"Royal Court Library in 1907. The most internationally famous Bengali writer is Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his work ""Gitanjali"". He wrote the national anthem of India and Bangladesh namely, ""Jana Gana Mana"" and ""Amar Sonar Bangla"", respectively. He was the first Asian who won the Nobel Prize. Rabindranath has written enormous amount of poems, songs, essays, novels, plays and short stories. His songs remain popular and are still widely sung in Bengal. Kazi Nazrul Islam, who is one generation younger than Tagore, is also equally popular, valuable, and influential in"
"Bal Govind Dwivedi Bal Govind Dwivedi (born 15 January 1948 Rari Khurd, Rari Bujurg, Fatehpur, U.P.) is a prolific Hindi poet. His father is Ram Pyare Dwivedi and mother is Kamala Dwivedi. He graduated in Mathematics from Kanpur University and became a lecturer of Mathematics at S.N.J.V Inter College, Krishna Nagar, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Along with the teaching job, he continued his studies and obtained both an M.A.(Hindi) and Ph.D.(Hindi). He is a well-known poet in Hindi. He was awarded in 1994 for his famous book, ""Astha Ke Phulon Se"". This book contains national songs. ""Gunj Utha hai vyom"" is"
"The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet ""The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet"" is a novella by American writer Stephen King, first published in ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"" in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection ""Skeleton Crew"". The title is in reference to the narrator's belief that insanity is a sort of ""flexible bullet"": it will eventually kill, but how long this process takes, and how much damage the bullet does before the victim finally dies, are impossible to predict. Since the publication of this story, King has occasionally used the term ""flexible bullet"" to describe insanity,"
"Sir Galahad (poem) ""Sir Galahad"" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, and published in his 1842 collection of poetry. It is one of his many poems that deal with the legend of King Arthur, and describes Galahad experiencing a vision of the Holy Grail. The subject of the poem was later included in ""The Holy Grail"" section of Tennyson's ""Idylls of the King"", but the latter version depicts Galahad as a pious individual who is grimly determined to fulfill his destiny. ""Sir Galahad"", in contrast, depicts Galahad as prideful, and has almost cheerful undertones. In 1833,"
"The Ballad of the White Horse The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work has been described as one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under the auspices of God working through the agency of the Virgin Mary. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's military and political accomplishments, it"
"Danny Deever ""Danny Deever"" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his regiment, paraded to watch it, and the poem is composed of the comments they exchange as they see him hanged. The poem was first published on 22 February 1890 in the ""Scots Observer"", in America later in the"
"Gitanjali Gitanjali (, ) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the book. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. The original Bengali collection of 156/157 poems was published on August 14, 1910. The English ""Gitanjali"" or ""Song Offerings"" is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems which"
"Nalapat Narayana Menon Nalapat Narayana Menon (October 7, 1887 – October 31, 1954) was a Malayalam language author from Kerala state, South India. His oeuvre consists of poems, plays and translations. His best known works include ""Paavangal"", a translation of Victor Hugo's ""Les Misérables"", and the elegy ""Kannuneerthulli"". He was born in Punnayurkulam, Ponnani taluk in South Malabar on 7 October 1887. He obtained English education from Kunnamkulam, Trichur and Calicut. While he was 18, he met poet Vallathol and became his chief companion. Vallathol's influence is obvious in his early poems. He was also influenced by Robert G. Ingersoll"
"Lalon Lalon also known as Lalon Sain, Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir or Mahatma Lalon (; c. 1772 – 17 October 1890; Bengali: 1 Kartik 1179) was a prominent Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker from the Indian subcontinent. Regarded as an icon of Bengali culture, he inspired and influenced many poets, social and religious thinkers including Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Allen Ginsberg although he ""rejected all distinctions of caste and creed"". Widely celebrated as an epitome of religious tolerance, he was also accused of heresy during his lifetime and after his death. In his"
"Ghanaram Chakrabarty Ghanaram Chakrabarty () (c. 1669-?) was a Bengali poet of the Middle Ages and the greatest contributor to the Dharmamangalkavya tradition of mediaeval Bengali literature. He was greeted by his guru as ""Kabiratna"" (""The Jewel of the Poets""). His work, ""Anadi Mangal"" (), also known as ""Sri Dharma Sangeet"", was probably composed in 1711. Chakrabarty was born to Gourikanta Chakrabarty and Sita Devi at Kukura-Krishnapur village on Damodar River in modern-day Purba Bardhaman district of the Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal). He was sent to a ""pathshala"" (traditional village primary school in Bengal) at Rampur. Later he"
"Vocation (poem) Vocation () is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It echoes a child's ever-changing dreams for the future, the search for a vocation. The poem describes a child's longing for the freedom he sees in the lives of those around him. When the gong sounds ten in the morning, he walks to his school and sees the hawker crying ""Bangles, crystal bangles!"" and he wishes he could be a hawker. At four in the afternoon, while coming back from school, he sees the gardener digging the ground and he wishes he were a gardener. When dusk falls his"